{"id":239804,"date":"2026-09-24T07:49:03","date_gmt":"2026-09-24T07:49:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/2026\/09\/24\/the-eu-wants-to-protect-children-online-what-about-everyone-else\/"},"modified":"2026-09-24T07:49:03","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T07:49:03","slug":"the-eu-wants-to-protect-children-online-what-about-everyone-else","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/2026\/09\/24\/the-eu-wants-to-protect-children-online-what-about-everyone-else\/","title":{"rendered":"The EU wants to protect children online. What about everyone else?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The EU&#8217;s new EU Kids Act wants to protect minors from addictive platform designs. Critics warn that age-based protection alone may deepen exclusion for disabled users, migrants and the undocumented.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/2026\/09\/24\/the-eu-wants-to-protect-children-online-what-about-everyone-else\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The EU&#8217;s new EU Kids Act wants to protect minors from addictive platform designs. Critics warn that age-based protection alone may deepen exclusion for disabled users, migrants and the undocumented. Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":239805,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-239804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-europe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239804","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=239804"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239804\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/239805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}